"Gonna Shoot Some Pigs"

“I don't know whats happening to me. I get funny ideas.”

Targets (1969) is the first film from Hollywood renaissance man Peter Bogdanovich and it doesn't show at all. At least not in the sense that one would expect from a first film. I didn't even know it was his first film until it finished and I started looking for information on the internet about it. Hard Eight by Paul Thomas Anderson feels like a first film. Even Reservoir Dogs at this point looks a bit clunky compared to the films that Tarantino has grown into making. Maybe not “clunky” but some effects definitely seem a little, well, like the film devices of a filmmaker finding his voice.

To Wong Foo Thanks For Everything, Bela Lugosi

The Raven by Roger Corman is a mystery of a film. Not the film itself, it's a zany madcap send up of horror films. Or is it? (Yes, it is.) But is it? Is it really? (Again, yes.)

It is and isn't. It's an anomaly on the Corman/Poe/Price landscape (as far as I know, I'm still a relative neophyte when it comes to the Corman/Poe/Price cycle, having only seen The Raven, House of Usher, and The Pit and The Pendulum.)